Among the new features:
- It is now allowed to reference enum variants through type aliases, such as through Self.
- cargo vendor is now included in the standard distribution.
- With cargo vendor, you can explicitly download and use a full copy of all source codes for all dependencies. This is useful for companies with monorepositories that want to store and analyze all the source code used in their software.
- Support for const _:.
- Support for Profile Guided Optimization.
- Support for #[repr(align(N))] for better control over alignments in structures.
- Changes in its standard library.
- Changes in Clippy
- Microsoft and Amazon have become sponsors of Rust, providing cloud infrastructure for building and testing Rust.
Source: linux.org.ru
